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Thousands of Afghans are stranded at the border with Pakistan, after a Pakistani government deadline for them to leave sparked a mass exodus. Islamabad has given 1.7 million Afghans it says are living illegally in the country until November 1 to leave voluntarily or be forcibly removed. IMAGES
Lorry drivers, stuck in the UK, get tested for Covid-19 to cross the Channel at Dover port. France and Britain reopened cross-Channel travel after a 48-hour ban to curb the spread of a new coronavirus variant but thousands of truckers faced being stranded for days near the port of Dover. IMAGES
Hundreds of Honduran migrants who made it into Mexican territory sing their country's national anthem on the shore of the Suchiate river, while thousands remain stranded on a border bridge between Guatemala and Mexico where riot police barred their progress. IMAGES
At least 10,000 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, are stranded in Necoclí, a port town on the Colombian coast near Panama. According to the local ombudsman, the migrants are held up waiting for boats to take them to the border with the Central American country, in the hope of eventually reaching the United States. IMAGES
Migrants and refugees call for Germany's help as they remain stranded at the Greece-Macedonia border. IMAGES
Macedonian police fire tear gas at migrants who were trying to pull down barbed wire from the border fence at the Idomeni in protest. Thousands of migrants have found themselves stranded in squalid conditions at the border between Macedonia and Greece after Macedonia and other Balkan states denied them passage to Germany and other destinations in northern Europe. IMAGES